Abstract
Visitors to Gettysburg battlefield almost always grasp immediately what the fighting was about: which side would control the roughly three-mile-long piece of high ground known as Cemetery Ridge (Fig. 4.1). For three fearfully bloody days in July 1863, Union General George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac sat atop this north-south trending spine of rock while Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia tried and failed to take it from them. Perhaps the single most important piece of contested land in the war, Cemetery Ridge is there thanks to geology.
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